Favorite Dali painting

[nytemare]

Mine is "Dream caused by the flight of a bumble bee around a pomegranate one second before awakening."

I like many of his paintings, but the sheer magnitude of the name of this painting had to make it my favorite.

:)

[MuseRider]

1. I am fond of all of them

but particularly "Woman With A Head Of Roses". I am pretty certain that is the name.

[nytemare]

7. That one is good

He was quite a weird fellow.

[Blue in a Red State]

13. My favorite, too

Always loved that one.

[Mist]

2. There's one w/Shirley Temple's head on a lion or sphynx body - weird!

[nytemare]

8. Yes, that is why we love him.

:)

[Hans Delbrook]

3. It would have to be this one...

Seriously, I'm going to the show here in Philly next w/e; I'll tell you after that.

[nytemare]

5. LOL. "Disintegration of the Persistence of Wiener Dogs"

Classic!

[Hans Delbrook]

12. I've always wondered if Gary Larson had a dachshund

A lot of us owners are obsessive but I don't know of too many non-owners who are. And he featured doxies in a lot of his cartoons. Though he featured more cows than anything else and I don't suppose he had a pet cow.

[DenverDem]

4. Christ Perspective

Dali's version of the crucifixion from the omnipotent perspective.

[nytemare]

6. That one was the cross with the blocks right?

Where it was 3 dimensional looking? I remember seeing that one at the museum in St Pete.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. The 3-dimensional figure's actually the unravelling of a 4-dimensional one

A tesseract or hypercube.

[Fridays Child]

16. This one?

It's interesting that it looks like a uterus and fallopian tubes. I wonder if Dali did that on purpose. The birth of a new faith, or something like that?

[nytemare]

17. Ahh that is different than the one I saw

Not the one with the blocks. :)

[johnnie]

9. This is the one I have in my living room

Do you know that name of it?

[MsMagnificent]

18. Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach

[nytemare]

22. Thank you

I found invisible man, and that wasn't it...LOL.

[johnnie]

23. No

It is called "Apparition d'un Compotier"

[MsMagnificent]

29. Ummm

you better inform the gallery curators then... :shrug:

[nytemare]

21. Is that "The Invisible Man"

I have seen this one in one of my books, but I am not sure if that is it.

[Osamasux]

10. Sun Table

Current fave, at least. There are so many subtle details that I keep finding new discoveries in it.

[nytemare]

24. The colors are very earthy.

I have a couple of wonderful repros in my room of some of his lesser knowns. "Milky Way" and another one with a coffee cup dangling from the sky and a melting clock. I bought them both off of e-bay, but can never find the second one anywhere so I can find out the name.

[Dudley_DUright]

14. There is a great Dali Museum in St. Petersburg FL

http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/

I have been there many times.

One of my favorite Dali paintings, The Hallucinogenic Toreador,

http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/collection/classic/the_hallucinogenic_toreador.php

is absolutely humongous.

[nytemare]

19. That one is nice

The Arrival of Christopher Columbus (I think that was the name) was also very cool.

[MsMagnificent]

15. The Temptation of St Anthony, among others

asking for one fave Dali is like asking for your favorite chocolate, or only one flavor of ice cream
;D

[nytemare]

25. He was truly amazing

I cannot imagine his "minds eye", how much of a genius he had to be to put what he had in his head on canvas.

I just watched to movie "Frida" today, and find myself interested in some of her art now, but it is far less available than Dali's works.

[KittyWampus]

20. I Did A Paper On That Painting!!! :-)

I like his Madonna

[goodboy]

26. Sentimental Colloquy...because it's got a piano, and I'm a pianist:

[goodboy]

27. also, living near St. Petersburg FL, I was lucky enough to visit

the Dali museum several times...it is the largest collection of original Dali works in the US

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

28. i like dali, but like hendrix and floyd

he kind of loses his appeal to a degree when you quit doing drugs after your teenage years

[Aristus]

30. The Last Supper.

Surreal, enigmatic and moving. Rare trifecta for Dali.